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Author here. I built Numble as a daily number-guessing puzzle in the Wordle mould, and along the way noticed that its feedback mechanic (coarse distance buckets with no direction) is unusually hostile to LLMs trying to play it cold. The article explains why: the answer never appears in the DOM, the feedback forces interval arithmetic across five independent candidate sets, and a recently added "joker" tile hides one cell's feedback entirely — which turns out to be the single most adversarial-to-LLMs feature in the game, and I shipped it as a visual gag. Happy to be told I'm wrong about the "first" framing; that's the part I'm least sure of.
Thank you. Great suggestion. I've deployed the change.
I've deployed PS1 and PS2. Thank you again.
Incredible feedback. Thank you.
The "close/warm/far" distance feedback is meant to make each column solvable in ~3 moves. 4 max with a bad start feels about right.
Only 16% of plays are solved in 3 or fewer guesses.
Curious if the all-ones strategy "feels" fun or if it feels like grinding.
Wordle, but for numbers. Guess the 5-digit code in 6 tries. Each guess reveals how close you are - but not which direction. New puzzle daily. Can you crack today's Numble?
Mention @TurnToAudio along with the "listen" keyword to unroll and listen to any Twitter thread.
I used https://speechify.com to listen to the post at 500wpm. It felt like the article was speaking directly to me.
Creative Selection - Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
https://www.audible.com/pd/Creative-Selection-Audiobook/B07D...
Spark on both desktop and mobile.
The Joe Rogan Podcast.
The Recode Decode podcast recently featured an online divorce service: https://www.recode.net/podcasts/2019/1/26/18198055/laura-was...
Durban, South Africa
Oh wow. Very much so. Thank you for the link. I have reading to do.
#Do cards are similar to Google Now cards. The idea is to enable any small business to expose a digital interface. i.e. a small collection of single-function cards which can then be dispersed, surfaced and executed anywhere.
I definitely see them used in notifications. Another use case that really excites me is Google's eddystone standard.
An open source contextual action platform called #do.
Imagine tapping a #hashtag in a @Nike tweet to buy their latest sneakers. http://hashdo.com
Just #do it.